According to a new analysis of data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts reached a new, all-time high of 261,083 matters by the end of September 2010. The case backlog has continued to grow—up 5.3 percent—since TRAC’s last report three months ago, and is more than a third higher (40 percent) than levels at the end of fiscal year 2008.
For full details, view the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/242/.
TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University. The purpose of TRAC is to provide the American people—and institutions of oversight such as Congress, news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars and lawyers—with comprehensive information about staffing, spending and enforcement activities of the federal government.
Syracuse University is a leading partner in a multi-university project that aims to increase supply and demand for climate-smart commodities produced and manufactured in New York state, supported by a new grant from the USDA’s Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities. The…
Alumna Chizobam Nwagwu ’18 (neuroscience/policy studies) is currently serving in the inaugural cohort of U.S. Digital Corps (USDC) Fellows. The U.S. Digital Corps launched last year to recruit early-career technologists to work on priority projects in five skill tracks: software…
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs welcomes Congresswoman Liz Cheney to campus on Monday, Oct. 3, for a conversation with Syracuse University faculty, staff and students. As Wyoming’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Cheney sits…
The Institute for Security Policy and Law (SPL) and Syracuse Law Review (SLR) are hosting the “Lessons Learned: Perspectives on Law and Policy from the War in Ukraine” Symposium on Thursday, Sept. 22, and Friday, Sept. 23, in Dineen Hall….
The University welcomes journalist and filmmaker Samantha Cheng for a special screening of her documentary, “Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese,” followed by a Q&A session on Friday, Sept. 16, in the National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel and…
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